Columbia, South Carolina, USA
1895 - Columbia

Columbia, a handsome city, the capital of South Carolina, and of Richland co., is on the left or E. bank of the Congaree River, at the confluence of the Broad and Saluda Rivers, 130 miles by railroad N.N.W. of Charleston, and $6 miles E.N.E. of Augusta, Ga. Lat, 33°57'30" N.; Lon. about 80° 51" W. It is at the head of steamboat navigation, is on the Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Railroad, and is the southeast terminus of the Columbia & Greenville Rail. road, which connects here with the Wilmington, Columbia & Augusta Railroad and the South Carolina Railroad. The site is a plain, elevated 100 feet or more above the river, which is here crossed by a bridge. The plan of the city is regular, and several of the streets are 100 feet wide. It contains a new granite state-house, which cost about $3,000,000, a new city hall, a handsome United States court-house, built since 1873, 2 national and 2 state banks, the Ursuline Institute, an asylum for the insane, which is under the direction of the state, and a theological seminary be: longing to the Presbyterians. It is also the seat of the South Carolina College, which was organized in 1st: and has a library of 27,000 volumes. Three daily, 2 tri weekly, and 4 weekly newspapers are published here, also a monthly religious paper. The Union army, under General Sherman, occupied this city in February, 1865, and a large portion of it was then consumed by fire. Pop. in 1860, 8052; in 1870, 9298; in 1880, 10,036; in 1890, 15,353.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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